Life and Nothing More
Contemporary Cinema
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1h 54m
Leaving October 1
Directed by Antonio Méndez Esparza | 114 mins | 2017
Spanish-born Esparza’s acclaimed sophomore feature is a delicately drawn, urgently emotional neorealist depiction of contemporary life lived at the precipice of despair, concerning a struggling single mother (Regina Williams) raising two kids in northern Florida, doing everything in her power to keep her 14-year-old son (Andrew Bleechington) from following his father into prison.
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L'Intrus
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
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Directed by Bi Gan | 140 mins | 2019
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Millennium Mambo
Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien | 107 mins | 2001
A seductive submersion into the techno-scored neon nightlife of Taipei, Hou’s much-misunderstood marvel follows an aimless bar hostess drifting away from her blowhard boyfriend and towards a suave, sensitive gangster. A transfixing trance-out of a mov...
